Training Log Archive: iansmith

It was very cold: -1 C, windy. I settled on a meandering route through mostly residential streets to avoid the traffic and cold.

It was cold and windy. Today, Gronk came out of retirement to join Brady on the Bucs.

Morning run. It was pleasant out.

I attempted to do 200 pushups in one hour, but only made it to 184. I mostly did sets of 15.

I tried something new, where I picked a direction and rough route (NNW, Bayview Ave), and biked for 30 minutes. I then turned around. The ride was liberating despite the 3 C temperature.

I set out to explore the waterfront trail heading east. Certainly near Toronto, the bike routes offer a difficult trade-off between interacting with slow pedestrians or interacting with fast cars. Kingston St was surprisingly pleasant, though the lower traffic due to the great pandemic isolation may have helped. For a stretch of about a km on Kingston at 1:03, I had a bit of a showdown with a friendly car who seemed to be encouraging me. Probably aided by a tailwind, I managed to crank up to 40 kph on flat.

Interestingly, while cruising down the Donn river trail, I repeatedly collided with swarms of gnats. My speed was sufficiently high that I found a number of bug corpses on my shirt by the time I reached the lake front.

Good times:
https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/video/detail/wom...

It was windy, but I ventured on the lower Don valley bike trail to the lake.

Event: Flying Pig XXIV / 2020 USA Nationals - POSTPONED